China's sloping land conversion program: Institutional innovation or business as usual?

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2008

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Elsevier B.V.

Abstract

This article discusses China's Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP), assessing both innovative and problematic aspects of the program. Four suggestions to improve the program are: 1) greater community involvement; 2) more technical and financial support; 3) clearer specification of the targeted environmental services and expectations; and 4) integration of SLCP with other rural policies.

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Payments for environmental services, Program planning, Government policy, Afforestation, Land use management, Forests, PES, China, Sloping land conversion program (slcp), Implementation, Program design, Farm/Enterprise Scale Governance

Citation

Ecological Economics 65(4): 699-711